▸ The President signed the $1.9T American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 into law in March of 2021
Public Health - $7.8M
▸ The ARPA authorizes the use of payments from the Fiscal Recovery Funds to respond to the public health emergency and provides many ways in which the funds can be used to support communities working to reduce and respond to increased violence.
1. PD Real Time Crime Center - $3,300,000
2. Behavioral Health - $2,500,000
3. Ambulance - $1,800,000
4. PD Body Scanner and Thermal Reader - $159,000
Negative Economic Impact - $49.9M ▸
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a severe impact on households and businesses.
The Interim Final Rule (IFR) noted, “as businesses closed, consumers stayed home, schools shifted to remote education, and travel declined precipitously, over 20 million jobs were lost in March and April 2020.”
1. Energy Commodity Cost- $20,000,000
2. Food Distribution Center - $10,000,000
3. Downtown District Revitalization - $10,000,000
4. Wi-Fi and Mobile Broadband - $6,000,000
5. Mesa Small Business Learning Lab - $3,800,000
6. Convention Center Floor Replacement - $145,000
Services to Disproportionately Impacted Communities - $20.7M
▸ These programs should “alleviate the immediate economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on housing insecurity, while addressing conditions that contributed to poor public health and economic outcomes.”
1. Homeless Solution - $20,000,000
2. Recreational Programming for K-6th- $447,000
3. Education and Enrichment Scholarships- $245,000
DETAIL:
Services to Disproportionately Impacted Community - $20,692,000
1. Homeless Solution - $20,000,000 Local Program: Provide services, infrastructure and programs to address economic impacts to housing-vulnerable, low-moderate income and homeless populations due to pandemic/COVID-19 hardships.
Focus of this investment will be on sustainable, longterm facilities and programs to help strengthen the City’s Housing Path to Recovery, namely emergency and bridge housing projects and also workforce development programs to help ‘skill up’ these same populations. Regional Partnership: Partner with Maricopa Association of Governments member cities, towns, counties and native communities to support the launching of a regionwide, outcome-based, data-driven strategy to build sustainable, regional infrastructure and programs to serve populations of homeless and households at risk of eviction due to the global pandemic. The goal of a regional approach is to share the burden regionally of addressing homelessness and to coordinate limited resources in the region for maximum community benefit for the entire region
Essential City Operations - $12.8M
▸ “Fiscal Recovery Funds payments may be used by recipients to provide premium pay to eligible workers performing essential work during the COVID-19 public health emergency…. Since the start of the COVID-19 public health emergency in January 2020, essential workers have put their physical well-being at risk to meet the daily needs of their communities and to provide care for others.”
1. Premium Pay - $12,800,000
Future Allocation
1. Unallocated Funding - $14,319,724
Potential Uses:
- Food Security Initiative
- Restaurant Incubator
- Rental Assistance
- COVID-19 Vaccinations
- Broadband Subsidy Cybersecurity
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Type: | Presentation | Status: | Agenda Ready |
Title: | Hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the City's proposed expenditure plan for the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds. |
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American Rescue Plan Act – Local Fiscal Recovery August 26, 2021
COUNCIL REPORT 11 Pages
Date: August 26, 2021
To: City Council
Through: Chris Brady, City Manager
From:
Michael Kennington, Deputy City Manager/Chief Financial Officer
Irma Ashworth, Finance Director
Subject: Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Discussion
Purpose
This Council report serves as a follow up to the discussion at the May 20, 2021 City Council meeting regarding the use of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds
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